Everyone of a certain vintage knows of this legendary army. The iconic full army shot from the back cover of White Dwarf 179 is the stuff of legend. An (at that time) obscure chapter in a quartered (!) scheme featuring 2 of the (at that time with the paints as they were then) hardest to paint colours, across a full company of space marines…it was mind blowing.
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Some old school White Scars space marines for your viewing pleasure.
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Over the last couple of weeks I have played a couple of games of 40K with my regular group.
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I played another game of Warhammer: The Old world last week, this time a 4 player game run a 2 vs 2 with me and my regular gaming buddy (High Elves and Wood Elves) taking on two opponents who were running Vampire Counts and Chaos Warriors. We each took 1,500 points (so 3,000 per side) and ran a simple pitched battle. It was good fun and 3,000 points per side made for a good game, though with those points restricted to 1,500 per player it meant that there weren’t any truly overpowered characters or units on the table.
Continue readingWarhammer Fantasy was always my first love, I’m not even sure how I got so sidetracked with 40K to be honest… The first wargaming figures I bought and painted were lizardmen in the 1990s 5th edition Fantasy era. So, like many, I was pleased to see “The World That Was” back again. I finally had a chance to play a game, and my regular opponent (who already has a few games under his belt) ran me through the rules last night.
Last night my Alaitoc Warp Hunters took on Jason’s Dark Angels in a bloody battle. I remembered to take a few photos this time and I wrote up a brief report of the battle (but this is not a comprehensive battle report). We also used our own house rules for combat resolution for the first time.
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Happy New Year, friends! I painted a Churchill Second World War infantry tank for Tom Egan‘s Festive Tank Challenge over 21 – 31 December 2023. Did it come out perfectly?…No, but it looks good I think and it’s done, which is perfect in its own way!
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Happy New Year, friends! I completed this Tiger I in Panzer Grey as part of Tom Egan‘s Festive Tiger Challenge over on Twitter after being encouraged to join by a fellow tweeter. It was a last minute thing and I painted it very quickly but overall I’m pleased with the results.
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I played a game at last with my eldar army. It was quite an achievement to play a game with a fully painted army—the first time ever in 20+ years of hobby—after painting the army over the last 2 years. I have put a brief battle report on my Twitter page and the thread is linked here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/classic40K/status/1571357194142220289
For month 3 of the challenge I painted some red models to achieve the “Red Circus” bonus round – what could be more 1990s than bright red after all?
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